Kate: I was nicknamed Blubber

Actress says it took her a long time to like her body

By Anonymous

Wednesday, April 29, 2009

The Oscar-winning actress says she’s proud of her figure now, but says it hasn’t always been easy to accept herself. She said: "I was bullied for being chubby. Where are they now! I had, 'No one will ever fancy me!' well into my teens. “Even now I do not consider myself to be some kind of great, sexy beauty. Absolutely not!”

Kate Winslet says she used to worry that no one would fancy her (Pic: Marie Claire)

Kate - who raises two children, Mia, eight, and Joe, five, with her director husband Sam Mendes - insists she is enjoying getting older and is happy her looks are maturing. The 33-year-old said: "I don't mind the way I'm ageing. I think I look my age, and that's fine. "I don't think I look younger than 33 and I don't think I look particularly older than 33. I think I'm sort of holding it together."

The star recently won her first Oscar / The interview appears in Marie Claire, out Thursday

But the star is keen to point out that her looks on-screen are a lot to do with lighting, makeup and retouching. She told Marie Claire: "I do think it's important for young women to know that magazine covers are retouched. “People don't really look like that. In films I might look glamorous, but I've been in hair and make-up for two hours, someone's been lighting a scene for three hours."MAKE SURE YOU'RE FOLLOWING OK.CO.UK ON TWITTER